Chris Combs is an artist working with technology in Washington, D.C.

About Chris

Chris Combs's artworks respond to pressing themes of surveillance, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic failure—and to the viewer, using facial recognition and motion sensing. Show More

He employs a wide range of practices to create circuit boards, software, and enclosures for interactive and time-based wood, metal, and found-object sculptures, which both embrace and question technology.

Updates

Read "Chris Combs: Who Suffers and Who Benefits from New Technology," my interview with the art publication "Not Real Art," featuring retromingency.
New work
“POET.EXE”
, a collaboration with poet Casey Smith, is part of a show at the Delaware College of Art and Design's lobby gallery in Wilmington, Delaware, through mid-October.
“Impressions”
is included in the group show "Repetition" at Ruby Projects in Fairfax, Va., through mid-October.
My July solo show, "Supercycle," was reviewed in the Washington Post. See recordings of my artist's talk and an interview about the show.

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Art Machines | 07 Sep 2023

POET.EXE

On display Available

Art | 07 Jul 2023

An Hour with ELIZA

Art | 07 Jul 2023

Cryptid Currencies

Art Machines | 07 Jul 2023

MacAffy’s Anti-Viral "Revigorator"

Art Machines | 07 Jul 2023

Pollination

Art Machines | 07 Jul 2023

Targeting

Art Machines | 28 Jun 2023

Booleans (Flanders Bay)

Art Machines | 01 Jun 2023

Reinvention Garage

Art Machines | 09 May 2023

Daybreak

Art Machines | 09 May 2023

S(p)lash

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Backdriven (Driven Back)

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Birdsight (Develop/Validate/Acquire)

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Black Box

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Enigma #QAL

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Honeypot

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Margins (JTNP)

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Shy Light

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Sync/Desync MARL-3

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Takes

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

This Machine Hates Kids

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Uncontrollable Light

Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Vaporware

Art Machines | 25 Feb 2023

Cluster

Art Machines | 13 Oct 2022

Hammond BIVALVE

Art Machines | 13 Oct 2022

Hammond COCOON

Art Machines | 13 Oct 2022

Hammond GEODE

Art Machines | 13 Oct 2022

Rootball INSPECTION

Art Machines | 13 Oct 2022

Rootball INTROSPECTION

Art Machines | 24 Aug 2022

Demon Core

Art Machines | 24 Aug 2022

Plans

Art | 09 Jul 2022

Data Chains

Art Machines | 09 Jul 2022

Feedback Loop

Art Machines | 09 Jul 2022

Illegal in Illinois

Art Machines | 09 Jul 2022

Morale is Mandatory (Algorithm Livery)

Art Machines | 09 Jul 2022

Print/Shred

Art | 09 Jul 2022

Probing DALL-E Mini

Art | 09 Jul 2022

Probing GauGAN2

Art | 09 Jul 2022

Probing ImageNet

Art Machines | 09 Jul 2022

Snap Judgment

Art Machines | 01 Jun 2022

F2G (Spoon Theory)

Art Machines | 05 May 2022

Lepidopterism

Art Machines | 28 Apr 2022

Stump/Sandia

Art Machines | 20 Mar 2022

Blurred Words

Art Machines | 20 Mar 2022

Forces

Art Machines | 15 Feb 2022

Alight

Art Machines | 20 Jan 2022

Clear-Cut

Art Machines | 03 Dec 2021

Bulkhead

Art Machines | 18 Nov 2021

65 Failures

Art Machines | 06 Nov 2021

Sync/Desync Micro

Art Machines | 06 Nov 2021

Sync/Desync R/G/B Micro

Art Machines | 25 Sep 2021

DataWorld 2021: booth 313, Maelstrom Networks, Inc.

Art Machines | 03 Sep 2021

Bayering

Art Machines | 03 Sep 2021

One-to-Many

Art Machines | 03 Sep 2021

Orchestration (Beeswax)

Art Machines | 03 Sep 2021

Subset

Art Machines | 15 Jun 2021

16 Bits (9:06:08) I

Art Machines | 15 Jun 2021

Sync/Desync I

Art Machines | 09 Apr 2021

Madness Method

Art Machines | 16 Jan 2021

Maelstrom

Art Machines | 03 Oct 2020

Iteration (Transmission IV)

Art Machines | 02 Oct 2020

Gateway (Transmission III)

Art Machines | 02 Oct 2020

Side Guide Control

Art Machines | 01 Oct 2020

Resolution (Transmission II)

Art Machines | 07 Aug 2020

16 Bits (9:06:08) Micro-A

Art Machines | 07 Aug 2020

16 Bits (9:06:08) Micro-B

Art Machines | 07 Aug 2020

8 Bits (2:08) Micro-B

Online Art | 27 Jun 2020

Closely Held

Art Machines | 28 May 2020

Loopback (Transmission I)

Art Machines | 01 Apr 2020

Morale is Mandatory

Art Machines | 01 Apr 2020

Point of Sale

Art Machines | 01 Apr 2020

Thermoelectric Candle I

Art Machines | 29 Dec 2019

Road Ahead

Art Machines | 28 Dec 2019

Impressions

On display Available

Art Machines | 10 Oct 2019

Rxsqtta-Stzne

Art Machines | 25 Jul 2019

Naked Mueller

Art Machines | 01 Jul 2019

Campfire

Art Machine | 02 Apr 2019

Publish/Perish

Art Machines | 04 Nov 2018

Fireflies

Art Machine | 07 Jul 2018

The Heart Says...

Art Machine | 26 Apr 2018

I see you there.

Art Machine | 26 Apr 2018

Two Minutes Hate

Art Machine | 25 Apr 2018

Feeling Lucky

Art Machine | 22 Apr 2018

Eyes

Art Machine | 20 Apr 2018

Extraction Potential

Art Machine | 20 Apr 2018

Our Time Together II

Art Machine | 25 Mar 2018

Bureautron

Art Machine | 15 Mar 2018

Wave/Wave

Art Machine | 15 Feb 2018

Security Theater?

Art Machine | 10 Jan 2018

Just Helping

Art Machine | 24 Jul 2017

Digital Daguerreotype

Art Machine | 27 Feb 2017

ZIP/ZCTA Deaccessioning Console

Art Machine | 19 Jan 2017

Markov Radio

On display Available

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